Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Carse of Gowrie. You may be able to find further references to Carse of Gowrie in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Carse of Gowrie fertile alluvial tract Bartholomew
Carse of Gowrie a low, flat, alluvial district Groome
Gowrie ancient district Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Carse of Gowrie within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller Section No. of Refs.
Thomas Pennant July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire 1

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Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Kinnaird 0 2
Gowrie 2 0
Inchture 0 2
Errol 1 2
Kilspindie 0 1
Baledgarno 0 2
Abernyte 0 2
Flisk 0 1
Longforgan 0 2
Dunsinane 1 2
Glencarse 0 2
Newburgh 0 2
St Madoes 0 2
Creich 0 2
Dunbog 0 2
Kingoodie 0 2
Collace 0 2
Benvie 0 2
Balthayock 0 2
Lindores 2 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Carse of Gowrie. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
CARSE OF GOWRIE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
F.H. Groome Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (Edinburgh: T.C. Jack, 1882-4).
GOWRIE John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
Thomas Pennant A Tour in Scotland 1769 (London: Benjamin White, 1776).

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  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.